Speakers

John L. Kent, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director, Walton College,
University of Arkansas

John L. Kent received his doctorate from University of Tennessee and is a Clinical
Associate Professor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of
Arkansas. In addition to teaching in the Department of Supply Chain Management, his
responsibilities include working with existing and establishing new relationships
outside the United States. His current service project is co-leading an “everyone
can code” curricular initiative working with Apple.

Speech Title: A Blockchain Technology-based System for the Safety of Food
Supply Chain

George Cheng

George Cheng is the maintainer and main contributor of OpenPAI, which is one of the
three key open source AI systems of the Microsoft Research Asia. With more than ten
years of experience in artificial intelligence system architecture, he has extensive
driving force and influence in the open source community. He also participated in
the core R&D and daily maintenance of several large open source projects.

Ethan Daniel Schur, Ph.D.

Ethan graduated from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Hardware Startup
Accelerator, with a PhD from Texas A&M in the field of Computer Science. He
represented the American Delegation to the United Nations in creating the
MPEG-4(H.264) standard. He was also the 3D video codec specialist at SMPTE, ATSC,
SCTE, Chair the of SID conference on 3D Display, Author of Stereoscopic 3D to the
home, Published by McGraw Hill. Proficient in technologies ranging from Blockchain
and Digital Currencies, to UNIX and networking, Ethan has been a Silicon Valley
innovator for over 25 years. He is also the CTO of Telepresence Robotics
Corporation.